“We are moving over to the policy of energy independence and energy efficiency,” he said.

He stressed that Ukraine will use less and less imported gas. “We must step up our own gas production and increase the share of coal in the energy balance, reduce energy intensity in industry and the housing sector to the European level,” he said.

At the same time, he confirmed that the government would continue gas talks with Russia.

“We will certainly continue the talks with our Russian partners on the annulment of the enslaving agreement, but the focus will be on our own potential and new technologies,” Azarov said.